invoice without name on it
 

Hey everyone!

Sorry if my question may sound strange to some of you but it is giving me kind of a hard time at the moment:

For an upcoming 3-week stay at the hilton in Budapest I am trying to avoid having the name of the guest on the letterhead on the invoice but only the company name (for tax reasons). I understand that the name will appear somewhere on the invoice but I was just trying to avoid having it on the letterhead.

According to the reservation agent I was in touch with it is not possible, however she did not seem very competent over the entire reservation process therefor I was wondering if one of you might be able to share his experience on this matter.

Thank you very much!

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Perhaps it is the auditor in me, but this request seems strange. I know of no country where the company name must be in the letterhead portion of the invoice in order to claim a deduction for tax purposes. Therefore, the skepticism in me causes me to believe that 1) you are mistaken about your need for this (I hope this is it) OR 2) you are trying to use the company name on the invoice in order to claim a deduction for a company for which it is not entitled.

If this is not the case, please explain the need for this request.

Thanks for your answer and sorry if my initial post lacked some information:

The stay will be payed by an Embassy and all taxes/AFA will therefor be refunded by the hungarian government. However, at least in Hungary, in order of having it refunded directly to the Embassy, no name may appear in the letterhead. I hope this explains it.

Whiteout + a copy ?

Before I ran around a foreign nation asking a local business to doctor documents to comply with American Embassy local rules, I would check with your Embassy contacts.

Presumably you are not the only person to have stayed at a local property on the Embassy's nickel and there is a solution.

This thing has State Dept. Inspector General written all over it after some hotel employee decides he doesn't like America and complains.

Sweden. I had a long discussion with my former employer about this as they tried to enforce not reimbursing expenses without it. (That didn't go over too well though)

I ended up calling the authorities to get the final say on it and it turns out that according to the law, the company name must be there. The guy I spoke to did admit that if it is plausible that I stayed somewhere for business, it is highly unlikely to cause any problems if the company name isn't there, but technically it should be.